GeForce GTX 760 SLI vs GTX Titan
Category : Versus
Published by Marc Büchel on 20.11.13
Maybe you're one of the gamers out there who simply can't have enough power coming from the graphics department or maybe you want to asseble a gaming rig with a given budget and you want to get the very maximum out of it. In both cases the following article might be interesting and it might be quite surprising to see how well to GTX 760 in an SLI can keep up with the mighty GTX Titan.



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Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Test Setup

Hardware

Mainboard
  • ASUS Maximus V Gene (BIOS 1802)
CPUs
  • Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.0 GHz (Turbo On / HT On)
Memory
  • G.Skill Ares Dual Channel 2x8GB @ CL11-13-13-31-1T-Auto DDR3-2400 MHz
Graphic Cards (Driver)
  • ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI
  • nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN
Drivers
  • Windows 7 x64 (up to date)
  • NVIDIA ForceWare 331.40 Beta
  • AMD Catalyst 13.11 BetaV1
  • Intel Chipset Driver 9.4.0.1026
Games and OS
  • Windows 7 x64 (Up to date on the ) 01/10/2013
  • All games were up to date on the 01/10/2013
HDD
  • OCZ Technology Octane 512 GB SSD
PSU
  • Seasonic Platinum SS-1000XP / 1000 Watts



Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

3DMark - Fire Strike Performance





Total Score Score Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 9'353 111.40 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 8'396 100.00 %
     
Graphics Score Score Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 11'608 123.23 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 9'420 100.00 %
More is better





3DMark - Fire Strike Extreme





 
Total Score Score Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 4'967 116.30 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 4'271 100.00 %
     
Graphics Score Score Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 5'427 122.78 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 4'420 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Unigine Heaven 4.0 Extreme Preset





Total Score Score Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 1'863 116.88 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 1'594 100.00 %
     
Frames per second FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 73.9 116.75 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 63.3 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

BattleField 3





High Preset, 1920x1080, 4xMSAA, Ultra, SSAO FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 113.6 117.84 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 96.4 100.00 %
More is better






Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Borderlands 2





High Preset, 1920x1080, FXAA, no PhsyX, High FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 127.8 99.22 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 128.8 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Bioshock Infinite - Benchmark





Ultra Preset, 1920x1080, AA, no DDOF FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 116.80 122.24 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 95.55 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Crysis 3





High Preset, 1920x1080, 8xMSAA, Very High FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 40.4 127.04 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 31.8 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Call of Duty Black Ops 2





High Preset, 1920x1080, 8xMSAA, High FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 180.4 138.56 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 130.2 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
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DIRT Showdown - Benchmark





High Preset, 1920x1080, 8xMSAA, Ultra FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 93.04 105.76 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 87.97 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Far Cry 3





High Preset, 1920x1080, 8xMSAA, Ultra FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 62.8 125.10 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 50.2 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Sleeping Dogs - Benchmark





High Preset, 1920x1080, Extreme, High-Res Textures FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 77.2 123.72 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 62.4 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim





High Preset, 1920x1080, 8xAA, Ultra FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 131.0 102.99 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 127.2 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Metro: Last Light - Benchmark





Very High, 1920x1080, SSAA, DX11 FPS Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 43.82 109.71 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 39.94 100.00 %
More is better





Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Grand Theft Auto V






Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Power Consumption





Power Consumption Idle* Watts Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 51 108.51 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 47 100.00 %
*Entire system Less is better


Power Consumption Load (FurMark)* Watts Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 478 156.21 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 306 100.00 %
*Entire system Less is better


Difference Idle/LoadDifférence Idle/Charge Watts Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 427 164.86 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 259 100.00 %
*Entire system More is better






Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
[pagebreak]

Performance Index, price

  Index
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC SLI 117.22 %
nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN 100.00 %
More is better


  Geizhals Toppreise
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nVidia GeForce GTX TITAN Toppreise.ch
 


Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdown
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion
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Conclusion

First of all lets talk about prices. Let's consider that the two GTX 760 DirectCU II OC together cost 427 Euro. Compare that to the massive 832 Euro the GeForce GTX Titan costs. Basically, a card that is slower than two other cards combined, costs almost twice as much. This puts things into perspective how overpriced the GeForce GTX Titan actually is. Sure, nowadays the GTX 780 Ti is out where the cheapest price is 579 Euro these days, which is still a whopping 152 Euro more than the two custom GTX 760 cards we've been using for this comparison. And still, even the GTX 780 Ti isn't faster than the two smaller cards in SLI but about that we're going to talk in another article.

To dive a bit deeper into the results, we start with performance differences in 3DMark where we see that the SLI of two GTX 760 is a whopping 23 percent faster than the mighty GTX Titan. In the next theoretical test we ran, Unigine Heaven, we see that the two 760's are on average 16 percent quicker than the GTX Titan. In case of games, the range goes from 3 percent in The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim to 38 percent difference in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which in other words means, that it goes from nothing to massive. One drawback of the two small cards certainly is the fact, they only feature 2 Gigabyte of GDDR5 memory and the GTX Titan comes with no less than 6 Gigabyte. Especially at ultra high resolutions this is going to be an advantage for the Titan, since the two GTX 760 will run out of graphics memory quite soon, when trying to keep boatloads of large textures in the memory. But luckily there are 4 Gigabyte versions of the GTX 760, which cost about 20 Euro more than the 2 Gigabyte cards, which in total is an additional 40 Euro to the 427 Euro we mentioned at the beginning of this conclusion.

To tell you the entire story, deciding between a GTX Titan and an SLI of GTX 760's is bit a double edged blade. The bad thing about the Titan is, that it's ridiculously expensive but on the other hand there are also bad things about the two 760's. In case of the particular models we tested, the graphics memory is too small for the performance delivered, there will be the usual SLI issues, although NVIDIA is taking quite good care of that and last but no least there is the power consumption which is 56 percent higher than with one single Titan. Other than that there is the GTX 780 Ti - to which we will compare the two 760's soon - that features a more "moderate" price tag. If you're actually thinking about buying two GTX 760's make sure you go for models with 4 Gigabyte VRAM otherwise the performance advantage compared to the mighty Titan as well as 780 Ti will shrink drastically when playing games at ultra high resolutions.

The following is my very personal opinion. I've always bee a bit of a fan of "SLIiny" mid-range cards, since sometime, you get really good performance for the money. Sure there is the drawback with power consumption but honestly having two cards in a gaming PC is simply cooler than just having one. I'm well aware that it's ridiculous but isn't the the ridiculous things on this planet that are the most awesome?


Page 1 - Introduction Page 10 - DIRT Showdownn
Page 2 - Test Setup Page 11 - Far Cry 3
Page 3 - 3DMark Fire Strike Page 12 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven 4.0 Page 13 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Page 5 - BattleField 3 Page 14 - Metro: Last Light
Page 6 - Borderlands 2 Page 15 - GTA V
Page 7 - Bioshock Infinite Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 8 - Crysis 3 Page 17 - Performance Index, price
Page 9 - Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Page 18 - Conclusion